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Check box religion
-Illustration by Mahjabeen Mankani/Dawn.com Know thy box. I mean do you know what box your faith can fit into? You better check that out or you won’t be able to vote in general elections. You need to...
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North India and south Pakistan
The two regions of the sub-continent, Uttar Pradesh in India and Sindh in Pakistan to be precise, have a unique bond, and a disconnect too. First, the bond: A huge number of Muslims from Uttar Pradesh...
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The curious case of Pakistani women voters
—Illustration by Abro Phenomena in reverse can be mind boggling and interesting too, especially if they are about women. I am here not referring to the popular cliché that women refuse to age and get...
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When charisma fails to deliver votes
– Illustration by Eefa Khalid/Dawn.com The corporate genie has granted you innumerable wishes, not just three. It might have dampened the drama, somewhat, but if you are an ardent consumer you will...
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A tiger’s roar, hiccups and a breathless huff
When political parties joined hands against the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) for the first time in 1977, they chose the election symbol of plough, since the country’s majority – the farmers –...
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Vote for nikki’s dowry
Illustration by Eefa Khalid. “Here are the partial results of Halqa NA 420 United States cum Canada cum Cuba where Mansoor Ijaz of PML-N is leading Hussain Haqani of PPP by a thin margin. Shaukat Aziz...
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Does size matter?
-Illustration by Mahjabeen Mankani/Dawn.com The ubiquitous inchee-tape is out. No, it’s not a mullah measuring the distance between the waistline and hemline of a sassy screen personality for the...
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Where does the buck stop?
Laws must make sense because if they don’t they are bound to be violated. The violators become criminals out of little or no fault of theirs and the matter becomes a grave social concern. That’s...
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The era of the topsy-turvy lota voters
One election robbed the vote bank of one major political party and the next looted that of the other. By the third, however, both had gotten an opportunity to pick up the pieces. The comparison of...
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Multan’s vote collider and the Bosan particle in our politics
Collisions can be revealing. That’s what we recently learnt from the famous European lab where physicist found what they call Higgs Boson and have nicknamed it ‘God particle’. They actually didn’t find...
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